Reddit essay pushes back on doom: recursive safety improvement could solve AI risk
yfreon · reddit · 2026-10-22
The author pushes back against RSI/singularity doom-mongering, arguing that if recursive self-improvement is possible, so is recursive "safety" improvement.
- Humans shouldn't have to fully understand LLMs; an intelligent swarm with billions in compute and a careful agentic workflow could solve its own misalignment
- Calls on near-trillion-dollar AI labs to spend a few billion dollars of compute on safety and interpretability
- Concedes bad events (even bio-risks) may still happen, but billions spent to control the singularity is well worth the cost
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